CORTANA AND SEARCH BAR ARE SEPERATING OMFG FINALLY

@rutee07 Good job living upto our stereotype.

@grumpyoldaf I doubt devs act like pornstars usually

It's been a thing on ltsc for a while now

@fuck2code Uh, yes we do.
We earn money to do things we might not really want.

Wait, they haven't been before?

GROUP POLICIES.

It's like the /etc folder in linux but with more clickyclickyinterfacy. There you can configure pretty much anything people are so annoyed of.

@nitwhiz Even better, there is an official Microsoft document with the mapping GPO -> Registry entry, together with the requirements of the Windows version.
Some of the setting of the GPOs could be applied to Home editions as well by directly writing the registry entry.

This whole episode with Cortana has been baffling anyway. It only kind of made sense when windows phone existed. Even then it she should have been contained to her own app and process. I recently set up some Win Server 19 and I blocked that bitch at the firewall

@jeeper FYI (even this is not the most recent one): https://microsoft.com/en-us/...

@jeeper Windows server includes a personal assistant 🤔

@12bitfloat your very own personal assistant for your non personal computer who by default has extensive access to files on your machine, network traffic, and rules, and has a continuous connection to her corporate home...